List of Isms

This is a list of words that have the -ism suffix. See the ism article for information on what the suffix can indicate, and the etymology of "-ism".

This list should not include words like prism and schism which end in -ism but have no etymological connection with ism words.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

ableism, abolitionism, absenteeism, absolutism, abstract expressionism, absurdism, activism, adoptionism, adultism, Afrocentrism, ageism, agnosticism, agrarianism, alarmism, Albigensianism, albinism, alcoholism, all-Americanism, Althusserianism, altruism, Americanism, anarchism, anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-syndicalism, aneurysm or aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, animalism, animal magnetism, animism, anthropocentrism, anthropomorphism, anti-Americanism, anti-abolitionism, anticlericalism, antidisestablishmentarianism, anti-imperialism, anti-intellectualism, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, Apollinarism, archaism, Arianism, Aristotelianismianism, atheism, Atlanticism, Atticism, attitudinism, Augustinism, Australianism, authoritarianism, autism

B

Ba'athism, Babaism, Bagism, Bahaism, baptism, behaviorism, Benthamism, Big Brotherism, bilateralism, bilingualism, bimetallism, Blairism, Bolshevism, Bonapartism, bonism, boosterism, botulism, breatharianism, brutalism, bruxism, Buchmanism, Buddhism, Bukharinism, Bullism, Bushism

C

Caesaropapism, Calvinism, Caodaism, capitalism, careerism, Carlism, Cartesian dualism, Cartesianism, Castroism, Catharism Catholicism, centrism, charlatanism, Chartism, Chassidism, chauvinism, checkbook journalism, classicism, clericalism, cognitivism, collectivism, colonialism, communism, Comtism, conformism, conformitarianism, Confucianism, conservatism, Conservative Judaism, contrarianism, constructivism, consumerism, corealism, Coreanism, corporatism, cosmopolitanism, creationism, criticism, cronyism, cubism, cultural relativism, cynicism

D

Dadaism, Daoism, Darwinism, deconstructivism, defeatism, deism, despotism, determinism, deviatonism, Discordianism, disestablismentarianism, Docetism, dogmatism, Donatism, do-goodism, do-nothingism, druidism, dualism, dwarfism, dynamism

E

Edwardianism, effeminism, egocentrism, egoism, electromagnetism, elitism, embolism, empiricism, environmentalism, environmental racism, epicureanism, Episcopalianism, essentialism, ethnic nationalism, ethnocentrism, Eudemonism, Eurocentrism, Eurocommunism, evolutionism, existentialism, expansionism, expressionism, extremism, extropism

F

fabianism, faddism, Falangism, fanaticism, fascism, fatalism, Fauvism, feminism, Fenianism, fetishism, feudalism, Food faddism, foot-fetishism, Fordism, formalism, Francoism, freeganism, functionalism, fundamentalism

G

Gallicism, Gaullism, gay liberationism, geocentrism, Geoism, Georgianism, Georgism, Germanism, gigantism, globalism, Goreism, Gnosticism, gradualism, Grundyism

H

Hacktivism, Hassidism, hedonism, Hegelianism, heightism, heliocentrism, Hellenism, henotheism, heroism, heterosexism, heterosexualism, Hinduism, hirsutism, historicism, Hitlerism, Hobbesianism, homoousianism, homosexualism, Horthyism, humanism, Hussitism, hypnotism

I

idealism, imperialism, impressionism, individualism, instructivism, intellectualism, internationalism, interventionism, irenicism, irredentism

J

Jacobinism, Jacobitism, Jainism, Jansenism, jingoism, journalism, Judaism

K

kathenotheism, Keynesianism, Khrushchevism without Khrushchev, Know-Nothingism

L

laborism, laicism, lamaism, Lamarckianism, Lancastrianism, leftism, left-liberalism, legalism, Leninism, lesbianism, liberalism, libertarianism, localism, Lollardism, Lutheranism, lycanthropism

M

magnetism, malapropism, Maoism, Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Masochism, materialism, maximalism, McCarthyism, mechanism, Medism, melanism, Menshevism, mesmerism, metabolism, Methodism, militarism, millennialism, minarchism, minimalism, Mithraism, modalism, Mohammedanism, Monarchianism, monarchism, monetarism, Mongolism, monism, monolatrism, Monophysitism, monotheism, moral absolutism, moralism, moral relativism, Mormonism, multiculturalism, multilateralism, mysticism

N

nationalism, National Socialism, nativism, naturalism, Nazism, negativism, neo-classicism, neoconservatism, neo-Darwinism, neopaganism, neoplatonism, nepotism, Nestorianism, nihilism, non-interventionism, nudism, nullificationism

O

objectivism, optimism, Orangism, organism, orientalism

P

Pabloism, pacifism, paganism, paleoconservatism, pan-Africanism, pan-Arabism, panentheism, pantheism, pan-Germanism, pan-Slavism, pantheism, papism, patriotism, Patripassianism, Pelagianism, Pentecostalism, Peronism, pessimism, phallocentrism, pharaonism, phenomenalism, philhellenism, Pilgerism, plagiarism, playganism, platonism, political absolutism, polycentrism, polytheism, populism, positivism, postcolonialism, post-Freudianism, postimpressionism, post-Keynesianism, postmodernism, poststructuralism, post-Zionism, pragmatism, Presbyterianism, priapism, primitivism, progressivism, Protestantism, proto-capitalism, Psilanthropism, Puseyism

Q

Quakerism, Quietism

R

racism, radicalism, Raelism, raptivism, Rastafarianism, rationalism, reactionarism, Reaganism, realism, recidivism, redneckism, reductionism, republicanism, Republicanism, revanchism, revisionism, rheumatism, rightism, Roman Catholicism, romanticism, Rosicrucianism, Rousseauism, rugged individualism

S

Sabbatarianism, Sabellianism, sadism, sado-masochism, Saint-simonism, Salvationism, Sapphism, Satanism, Schachtmanism, Scientism, Scotticism, sectarianism, secularism, sedevacantism, sensualism, sesquipedalianism, sexism, Shiism, Shintoism, Sikhism, sizism, skepticism, social Darwinism, social realism, socialism, socialist realism, Socianism, solecism, Sparticism, speciesism, Spenglerism, spiritism, spiritualism, Spoonerism, Stalinism, standpatism, stasism, statism, stoicism, structuralism, Sufism, surrealism, syndicalism, syncretism

T

Taoism, Taylorism, terrorism, Thatcherism, theism, Thomism, Titoism, Toryism, totalitarianism, transcendentalism, transgenderism, transhumanism, transsexualism, transsubstantiationism, transvestism, tribalism, Trinitarianism, Trotskyism

U

Ultraleftism, Ultramontanism, Unificationism, unilateralism, Unitarianism, Universalism, Universism, utilitarianism, utopianism

V

vampirism, veganism, vegetarianism, Victorianism, voyeurism, vulgarism

W

Wahhabism, Whiggism, Whitlamism, witticism

X

Y

yellow journalism, Yorkism

Z

Zionism, Zoroastrianism, Zwingliism